Leo Tolstoy Quotes
When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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When you're a teenage girl, a lot of being pretty has to do with your hair.
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Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hoping to be successful myself, I would like to think others would respect my privacy.
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I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
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In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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A lot of players think the game is all about individual performances when it's really all about a team game.
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I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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Stop threatening me... I've lived in terror and I've come out of it. Kill me or not, torture me or not, it doesn't matter to me. Just decide what to do.
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I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.
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When an old person dies who has been a part of your life, it is part of your youth that dies.
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When we are all together, we will have a future that is far greater than whatever we could do separate from one another.
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To cry on court during a Wimbledon final, you must feel so lonely.
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Affirmitive action is extremely complex because it appears in many different forms.
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I have signed the personhood petition. I have taken the petitions to my church and circulating into my church. And I have a legislative record that backs up my support for life.
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Punditry is like weather forecasting: the winds can shift without warning. I remember when nobody would bet a McDonald's Quarter Pounder that Bill Clinton would win the White House.
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The whole thing is you don't want to be pigeon-holed as 'Oh, he's a guy in a wheel chair. He's very fragile. You better watch out.'
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I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
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Elections are about the future. And the GOP will not win a campaign focused on the past.
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I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.
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In China, you've got six people buying for one child. But the thing is, you've got the largest rising upper-middle class in the world.
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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
